Insecticide.



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

ALBERT P. CBOMWELL, OF FLORIDA, NEW YORK.

INSECTICIDE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed June 12, 1905. Serial No. 264,902-

1'0 a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT P. CRoMwELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Floriola, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Insecticides, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel composition for. use in destroying insects or vermin.

full strength for the destruction of household Vermin or diluted with water for use in spraying or sprinkling upon trees, plants, flowers, or shrubs for the destruction of insects on the same or for saturating the ground around the plants for killing worms, such as cut-worms.

The composition is a very efficacious insecticide, being practically instantaneous in its action.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described composition of matter for use as an insecticide, comprising benzin, hellebore, nightshade, laurel and water.

2. The herein-d escribed composition of matter for use as an insecticide, comprising benzin, hellebore, nightshade, laurel and water combined in substantially the proportions specified. 4

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT P. CROMWELL. Witnesses:

THEODORE SMITH, BERT CRoMwELL. 

